Jeffrey Zients, who has actually been picked as President-elect Joe Biden‘s coronavirus chief on Thursday, apparently left Facebook previously this year over distinctions with the social networks giant.
Politico earlier reported Biden’s choice to tap Zients as his administration’s COVID-19 head, according to individuals familiar with the matter.
Earlier this year, The Wall Street Journal reported that Zients would not seek reelection to Facebook’s board. According to the newspaper, which pointed out individuals knowledgeable about the matter, Zients’ choice to leave Facebook’s board came amid differences with how the social networks platform dealt with misinformation.
However, Facebook stated that Zients’ departure from its board was so that he might “dedicate more time to his organization and other professional interests.”
According to the Journal, Zients stated in a statement: “I wish Mark [Zuckerberg], the leadership team, and the dedicated Facebook employees the very best.”
In addition to serving on Facebook’s board, Zients acted as the director of the National Economic Council under President Barack Obama and was an assistant to the president for economic policy.
Prior to his time as the director of the National Economic Council, Zients served twice as the acting director of the Workplace of Management and Budget (OMB). His very first stint in this position occurred from June to October in 2010, and after that later served once again from January 2012 to April 2013.
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Zients was validated by the Senate as the deputy director of the OMB in 2009, and was later designated by Obama as United States primary performance officer.
” I have named Jeffrey Zients, a leading CEO, management expert and business owner, to function as Deputy Director for Management of the Office of Management and Budget and as the first ever Chief Efficiency Officer,” Obama said in2009 “Jeffrey will work to simplify procedures, cut costs, and discover best practices throughout our government.”
In 2013, Zients was recruited by Obama and then-Chief of Personnel Dennis McDonough to repair healthcare.gov, following its error-plagued launch.
Prior to his time working under Obama’s administration, Zients served as the ceo (1998–2000) and the chairman (2001-2004) of the Advisory Board Company, along with the chairman of the Corporate Executive Board from 2000 to 2001.
Zients also founded and acted as the handling partner of Portfolio Logic LLC, a personal investment firm with a focus on health care services.
He is presently the CEO of Cranemere, a holding business, which is understood for “rejecting the debt-fueled buy-and-sell grind of private equity and doing it old-school like Buffett– looking for value where others have missed it and investing for the long-long term,” according to The Washington Post
In addition to Zients, Politico reported that Biden prepares to appoint Vivek Murthy as the U.S. surgeon general, a position he previously held under the Obama administration.
Newsweek reached out to Biden’s transition group for remark, however did not get a response in time for publication.
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